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Amtul Shaheen, M.A., serves as a Pre-Doc Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne since 2020. She is currently pursuing doctoral research while teaching courses on Globalization of Ethics, Migration and Religion, and Anthropology of China.
Her research focuses on the Anthropology of East and Southeast Asia, with specific interest in Globalization, Migration, Transnationalism, Diaspora communities, Religion (particularly Islam), Ethics and Morality, Secularism, and Identity Politics. Her regional expertise centers on China, Taiwan, and the Chinese Diaspora in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Her doctoral project examines 'Inclusive Practices of a Globalized 'Chinese-Taiwanese Islam' amid Taiwan's Covenantal Pluralism,' building on her previous research including 'Constructing transnational identity through religion: the Indian Sikh diaspora in Cologne' and 'China's northwestern women's mosques between state, religion and modernity.'
She has presented her work at numerous international conferences including the Workshop for the Studies of Islam and Muslims in China at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, and the Annual Meeting of the German Research Foundation Scientific Network 'Anthropology and China(s)' at Heidelberg University.
From November 2022 to December 2024, she served as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Lived Religion Research Group, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her fieldwork experience includes research in China's Institute of Ethnology (Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China) at Lanzhou University.
- Ph.D. Candidate at University of Cologne
- Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2022-2024)
- MA in Sinology/Modern China, French Philology, Information Processing and Islamic Studies (2015)
- Research on Chinese diaspora communities and religious practices
